Programmer, Writer, Mom
Posted in Personal, Writing/Reading on Jan 21st, 2010
October 2009 At the end of October, I spent 3 days at the Surrey International Writers Conference. The one thing I heard over and over was to write every day. Most writers agreed it wouldn’t be great writing or even something they would use in their final manuscript. The idea was to get in the [...]
Posted in Writing/Reading on Oct 28th, 2009
I recently attended SIWC and had a pitch session with a NY Editor of an established pub. Here is the piece of paper I took into the session. Pitch: My story, The Backup, is about Maggie, a computer whiz. She stoops to lowly computer repair gigs on craigslist to pay the bills. When her dumb-ass [...]
Posted in Writing/Reading on Oct 25th, 2009
A Writers Conference I have never been to a Writers Conference so I didn’t know what I was in for. Sure the sessions and speakers were posted on the site, but you never really know until you go, right? A year ago I started asking every writer I could find locally and asked for a [...]